I’m not sure if I’ve ever fallen in love with an album from a band that I never heard of as quickly as I did with After The Fall’s “Fort Orange”. Seriously, first ten seconds into the opening title track, and I was sold. Besides the obvious Propagandhi influences (and as we all know, any […]

Besides having a name that every hardcore kid should take to heart, Philly’s Lighten Up! is the biggest breathe of fresh melodic hardcore air that I have taken since discovering The Steal. With their debut LP “Absolutely Not!” the band blazes through 12 melt-facing songs in under 18 minutes. The first song “Invisible Checks” with […]

With the recent announcement that MCA from the Beastie Boys has been diagnosed with a very treatable form of cancer, I thought it would be a good time to revisit these hip/hop hardcore kids. “What? Hardcore kids? silverunity, what the fuck are you smoking?” Yes dear readers, when they’re not fighting for their right to […]

These Kingston, PA duders have just released their new “The Last Thing You Forget” which can be bought in a 3 song vinyl format or a 12 song CD (What the fuck?). The CD features the newest songs from Title Fight, along with everything else they ever released. Often classified as melodic-post-ten thousand other adjectives-hardcore, […]

So, my external hard drive that I have at work with all my music died (boo!). Luckily, I have all the music on my home PC as well, but this means I can’t share any new sweet tunes… so why not use this as an excuse to rehash some songs that I’ve posted a few […]

Man, Ceremony has been quickly becoming one of my favorite hardcore bands as of late. Released back in ’07, “Scared People” has 5 new songs and one Negative FX cover from these Cali hardcore kings. The songs are a bit more melodic than their newer “Still Nothing Moves You”, and a bit less spazz-tastic (they […]

I know, I know. I’m a little late hopping on the whole Jay Reatard bandwagon, but only by 5 minutes. For those of you who have also missed the wagon (because you tried to ford the river and your fucking oxen died… should have just paid the toll) Jay Reatard is a garage punk rocker […]

I have something to admit. I was a bit hesitant to check out Over Stars and Gutters debut “Consider This Your Curse”. The name itself hints at screamo and then once I saw the cover art, I was pretty damn certain. Lesson: Don’t judge an album by it’s cover (unless it’s one of those youth […]

Every few years, when the moon becomes full and the goblins creep through the night, Armalite decides to play a fucking show. Although I actually headed down to Maryland this weekend, there was no way I was going to miss this rare occasion and I made it back in time (drove straight to the venue) […]

(picture taken from their homepage, which hasn’t been updated since 1999… I like the MS Paint Frame). Flash back to 2003. I was a college freshman when my college radio station was cleaning out their inventory and had a “free bin” mostly filled with pop/emo/alternative rock crap. I was sifting through the CDs, and was […]